Sapphire Blue
SAPPHIRE BLUE review from We Blog About Books
“This book will make you uncomfortable…” A new review of Sapphire Blue is up this morning, at We Blog About Books: It reads kind of like Fifty Shades. Poor girl, rich intriguing guy etc etc but it’s also different from it. There’s a stronger plot and better characters. Read the entire review here
Read MoreSAPPHIRE BLUE on Netgalley
Calling all reviewers On the off-chance you are a reviewer who does follow me here or on Twitter or Tumblr or on my Facebook Author Page but did not catch the news, Sapphire Blue is now available for request on Netgalley. I’m sorry, I should make that more emphatic: SAPPHIRE BLUE IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR REQUEST ON NETGALLEY! Actually,…
Read MoreEarly review for Sapphire Blue
GoodReads review Reviews are going to roll in slowly for Sapphire Blue over the next few months–very slowly, at least until it’s up on NetGalley–but here is an early review for the book, written by (full disclosure) one of the editors at TWCS. I kind of love this review, so I wanted to share it. Even the…
Read MoreHELLENIC IMMORTAL audiobook
Audiobook now available I’m happy to announce that the audiobook for Hellenic Immortal is now available from Audible.com. As before, the book is read by the estimable Jeff Steitzer. Order your copy here Sapphire Blue info page I have added an information page for Sapphire Blue, which you can find by clicking the tab at the top of…
Read MoreSAPPHIRE BLUE on GoodReads
Add it to your bookshelf! Sapphire Blue is officially listed on GoodReads. Swing on by and add it to your bookshelf when you can. Here, have a nice big link to get to it: SAPPHIRE BLUE ON GOODREADS Note that the book’s author on GoodReads is “Gene Doucette” instead of the “G Doucette” on the…
Read MoreBook updates
Distribution Have you ever walked into a bookstore, looked around, and said to yourself, “Why aren’t any of the novels by my favorite author, the incredibly handsome Gene Doucette, for sale in this establishment?” Of course you have! Well now you can walk right up to the nearest employee and tell them to correct this, because…
Read MoreA funny thing happened on the way to the printer
New new Sapphire Blue cover As you all know, I recently revealed the cover design for Sapphire Blue. It was a glorious, naive time, before I knew about things like RGB and CMYK and what is wrong with the color blue. A time of peace. A time about a week and a half ago. Okay, so here’s what’s…
Read MoreSAPPHIRE BLUE Cover
Cover design process The act of designing a cover for a novel is, from my side of things, pretty uncomplicated. The publisher has people who do these things, I just have to give them an idea of what I’m looking for and help find images of the elements needed to assemble the whole thing. The…
Read MoreIntroducing g. doucette
On pen names As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog entry my next book, Sapphire Blue is erotica. Today I want to talk about pen names a little bit. I am using a pen name, but that name is g.doucette, which it doesn’t take a genius to figure out is me. That’s because I don’t really have a…
Read MoreMy next novel
So as to not bury the lede First things first: my next novel is called Sapphire Blue and it will be coming out (tentatively) on February 27, 2014. In terms of genre, Sapphire Blue is definitely two things, and possibly three other things, and the two definite things it is are things you are probably not expecting…
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